The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.